Some Boys

from Music by the Water by Alex Rake and the Leaves

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Some boys are slimy things on the shore all downing drinks.
Some boys fix drainpipes. Some vomit down the sinks.
Some boys swear they’re different and care what no one thinks.
They cast their curse across the sea, and on our girl a jinx.

Some girls are easy things, so young, naive, and hot.
Some girls get poisoned. Some girls get shot.
Others are the lucky few who crawl right out of the pot
which holds the gold and men of old and all those things that rot.

You play her like this piccolo pressed up against my lips
to call to her across the hills, all over which she trips.
All while some slim succubus you once knew from your blood sips.
All while in her like a rusty knife, your ugly body slips.

Now I can’t reach to touch her. Her face won’t twitch to smile.
Anything else you were hoping you might damage or defile?
Does it bring you satisfaction, us choking in a pile?
It ain’t hard to tell you’re going to Hell. I’ll catch you there in a while.

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from Music by the Water, released November 6, 2015

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Alex Rake and the Leaves Mission, British Columbia

Alex Rake is a songwriter, poet, and playwright from the Fraser Valley and the Leaves are his friends.

They yell and improvise all over troubadour songs.

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